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THOUGHTS
practical approach ?
. modelling, moulding, construction
. work in situ : interest in spatial and architectural configurations
as settings for execution, exhibition
. design : mixed techniques
recurrence ?
. soap, plaster, wax
. actions : tearing, crushing, breaking, sawing, throwing, washing,
binding, plastering, encasing, strengthening, filling, emptying
. components : sifter, wire, chain, filter, water, net to collect
plaster screenings
. colours : white, red, gold in modest quantity for inviolable figures
. by affectation : debris, flotsam and jetsam from the sea
preoccupations ?
. anti-illusionnist
. taking the reality of the material into account would
one get closer to something genuine ? no cheating an art
of behaviour
. substances : solid, liquid or gas, concepts of origins, life,
freedom
. improvisation or "distortion" of form
. initial states of form of what comprises elementary nature
. precarious expression, of the type hardly , hardship,
about what is lacking, what is nothing, what is white/blank
. creation of poetic images with self-evidence as a constraint
a presentation that
follows naturally
. today, in the context of contemporary sculpture : a "re-materialisation"
of form
. immanence
. questioning man s relationship with his surroundings : increasingly
virtual
modes of organisation and communication a sterile development
. recovering human qualities what virtues ?
. romantic vision of the world
. memory/vestiges to fight against ignorance and oblivion
. Armenian origins - impossible to ignore the genocide : "methodical
destruction of an ethnic group" (definition in the Petit
Robert )
how to proceed ?
. empiricism
. maintain a direct rapport with matter, experimental approach
. dialectics : paradoxical, ambivalent, contradictory
. elaboration of form between the disappearance of the model and
its reproduction depending as much on its destruction as
its construction
. fragment : recomposition by means of repair, consolidation
. imprint : negative print creating a link between form
and reality a minimum distance
. covering hides or reinforces
. moulding : improbable a modified reproduction, out of
touch with reality
. "archeology" of corporeal states, physical reactions
of matter, tactile sensations exposed in their fragility
. indices : wear and tear, traces, fractures
. soap and wax do not stick to plaster
. in situ pieces with soap : installation of simple mechanical devices
whose aim is the evolution and transformation of its substance as
it dissolves while on public exhibition form constructs
itself uncontrolled producing fragments or objects,
ready to be reworked or not in the studio as new pieces
content ?
. white : dumb, a state of weightlessness removing weight
from reality
. gravity : falls
. soap recalls flesh, its various mutations, what is living
. its possible dissolving/dissolution : leading an existence that
is dissolute or deprived of solutions
. it does not disappear water evaporates, soap remains
. notion of "intellectual grooming" - of "personal
dignity " cf. Francis Ponge, "Soap"
. existence, the body (organism), its fragility, vacuity, memory,
life-span
. liquid
. red : blood circulation internal
. soap and wax used to remove things from a mould
. content / container
. hollow / vanity of resistance
. adaptation of the human being who controls nothing
Frédérique Nalbandian
2006, translated by Jill Harry
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